Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction.
2018
PN3324
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Title
Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction.
Author
Horan, Thomas, 1974- author.
ISBN
9783319706757 (electronic book)
3319706756 (electronic book)
9783319706740
3319706748
3319706756 (electronic book)
9783319706740
3319706748
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Springer Science and Business Media : Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
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PN3324
Dewey Decimal Classification
809.304
Summary
This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism. Taken together, these books delineate a subset of politically conscious speculative literature, which can be understood collectively as projected political fiction. While Thomas Horan addresses problematic aspects of this subgenre, particularly sexist and racist stereotypes, he also highlights how some of these texts locate social responsibility in queer and other non-heteronormative sexual relationships, anticipating the ideas of various cultural theorists. In these novels, even when the illicit relationship itself is truncated, sexual desire fosters hope and community.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed February 19, 2018).
Series
Palgrave studies in utopianism.
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Desire and Empathy in Twentieth-Century Dystopian Fiction.
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